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205 From the station of Jupiter the planet increases its brilliance, and in the zodiac of Cancer will become Nibiru. The great planet: At his appearance: Dark red. The heaven he divides in half as it stands in Nibiru. Taken together, the astronomical texts from the time of Ashurbanipal described a planet appearing from the solar system’s edge, rising and becoming visible when it reaches Jupiter (or even Saturn before that), and then curving down toward the ecliptic. At its perigee, when it is closest to the Sun (and thus to Earth), the planet—at the Crossing—be- comes Nibiru “in the zodiac of Cancer.” That, as the en- closed schematic (and not to scale) diagram shows, could happen only when sunrise on the day of the Spring Equinox took place in the Age of the Ram—during the zodiacal age of Aries (Fig. 92). Such clues regarding the orbital path of the Celestial Lord and its reappearance, sometimes using the constellations as a celestial map, are also found in biblical passages, thereby revealing knowledge that must have been internationally available: Darkness at Noon FIGURE 91